Also, listen to Goat Vengeance - The Goat Shout Triumphs Forever. I can't find this online for easy listening (my prior link to them was farked up), but the CD kicks ass. Find it, buy it. It is raw, ugly black metal that sounds like it was recorded in a sewer - the way black metal should be.

/I'm ok with Red Fang//and thank you to Winterlight for the totalfark!

the song is somewhat ok but pretty crappy by historical Relapse Records standards. the dudes are basically just like my friends and i, which is cool.

the video is pretty awesome. the narrative depicts the soul battle of the Hessian who attempts and fails to exorcise his own inner LARPer demons, thus ending him in a chaos of death aesthetics. in this context, we see how the nihilism inherent in heavy metal arises and can begin to explicate and understand it's relationship to the broader cultural milieu.

I hear a big Black Sabbath influence in there... so if they sound like the inventors of metal... they prolly are metal. And thank the stygian gods, a band that realizes that clearing your throat for 4 minutes doesn't sound badass, it sounds farking stupid. These guys are way better than most so called current metal.